Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Java)

SmartRecruiters is the Recruiting AI Company that transforms hiring for the world’s leading enterprises. Built for global scale, SmartRecruiters, an SAP company, delivers an AI-powered hiring platform that automates and optimizes the entire talent acquisition process, ensuring faster and smarter hiring decisions. More than 4,000 companies, including Amazon, Visa, and McDonald's, rely on SmartRecruiters to build winning teams. In 2025, SmartRecruiters joined SAP, the global leader in enterprise applications. Together, SmartRecruiters and SAP are accelerating the reinvention of hiring by combining cutting-edge AI innovation with the scale, reach, and resources of SAP’s ecosystem.

At SmartRecruiters, we are a values-driven, globally focused tech company with strong financial backing and a bold vision for the future of work. We commit and dig deep, embracing challenges with grit, curiosity, and a drive for excellence. We foster a collaborative and inclusive work environment, where trust and determination bring us together. Because together, we will win.

Recognized by Fosway Industry Analysts as a strategic leader in recruitment technology for three consecutive years, and awarded by Comparably as a top company for Women, Perks and Benefits, Work-Life Balance, Happiness, Compensation, Diversity, and Culture - we take pride in creating a place where everyone can thrive. Our remote-friendly culture, competitive salaries, and strong internal mobility ensure that high performers have meaningful growth opportunities in an environment built on respect and empowerment.

Our engineering team solves one of the most important problems of the modern economy - connecting great people with great jobs. We believe this problem can only be solved with technology, and we developed a software platform that has supported over 100M job seekers to date (with 5M joining every month). We are looking for a backend engineer to help us build the next chapter of that vision. 

We designed our R&D structure based on the empowered product teams model. It means our teams are responsible for business outcomes and have autonomy in solving problems in the way that “customers love yet work for the business” (yes, we are heavily influenced by this and that).

Our technology platform is a SaaS product hosted on AWS. Our system is composed of hundreds of independent services orchestrated by Kubernetes.

We build most of our services in Java, Javascript (Node.js), and Python. We have a strong CI/CD culture, and we currently run 40 production deployments per engineer per month.

Important: the position is available only under a standard contract of employment with 80% of tax deductible cost.

What you’ll deliver:

• Contribute to a full life-cycle of the product (including problem discovery, prototyping, design, implementation, and measuring adoption)
• Build services with Java / Node.js (Express, Nest.js) on top of Kubernetes/AWS infrastructure
• Build developer-friendly RESTful APIs
• Design and connect to our persistence layer (PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch)
• Collaborate with other teams

• Proven experience in designing, developing, and operating distributed systems
• Experience in supporting end-to-end product lifecycle (from product discovery, solutioning, system design, implementation, production rollout, and optimization)
• While not strictly required, we see that most of our Senior Engineers have 5+ years of professional experience
• Deep command of the Java programming language
• Hands-on experience with TDD, clean code, clean architecture principles, and effective code reviews
• Strong domain modeling skills, including refactoring existing domains
• Good understanding of persistence layer and RESTful API design
• Solid understanding of distributed systems design (design for failure, eventual consistency, asynchronous communication, circuit breaking, timeouts, etc.).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and frequent deployments (a plus)
• Familiarity with AWS/GCP and Kubernetes/Docker (a plus)
• Proven ability to accelerate development using AI coding assistants (a plus)
• Hands-on experience building with modern LLM architectures such as Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
• Ability to coach and mentor other engineers
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills
• Strong command of the English language, both written and verbal 

SmartRecruiters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.